Theodore “Tray” Adams
III, senior
vice president of state government relations, McGuire
Woods,
Richmond. Adams was previously vice president in the
Virginia office of the Troutman Sanders Public Affairs
Group. (News release)
Richard Birt, senior vice president of new business development,
Echelon Marketing Group,
McLean. Birt had worked with major database marketing
vendors such as TRW, Foote Cone & Belding and
others, and owned two consulting groups, Rouge and
Fast Forward Events. (News
release)
Neil Crawford, named director, CI Travel,
Norfolk. Crawford is president of Monarch Bank in
Norfolk. (News release)
Theodore L. Chandler, named chairman
and CEO, LandAmerica Financial Group Inc., Richmond,
effective Jan. 1.
Chandler has been president and CEO. He joined LandAmerica
full time in 2001. (News release)
Creigh Deeds,
a state senator for the
Alleghany
Highlands and
Charlottesville regions, joined the law firm of Hirschler
Fleischer in
Richmond. Deeds has served in the legislature for 15
years and narrowly lost a statewide race for attorney
general in 2005. (News release)
Pierre Donahue, general
legal counsel and senior vice president, Barcelo
Crestline Corp. and Crestline Hotels & Resorts,
McLean. Donahue previously worked for Marriott International
where he was vice president and assistant general
counsel. (PRNewswire)
Judy Ethell,
CFO, BearingPoint Inc.,
McLean. Ethell was
chief accounting officer for BearingPoint and replaces
Harry You who will focus on duties as CEO. (PRNewswire)
Henry H. Graham Jr.,
CEO, TNS Inc., Reston. Previously, Graham was executive
vice president and CFO of TNS. Graham has held
executive positions with PaylinX Corp. and Transaction
Network Services. Inc. (Business Wire)
Mark Hanna, named president and CEO, Virginia
Company Bank,
Newport News. Hanna joined the company as president
in September 2005. He succeeds retiring CEO Jon Nystrom. (News
release)
Shannon Hartig, resigned
as president of the Williamsburg Hotel
& Motel Association. Hartig had
been president since April 2005 but felt turnover in
the association’s board caused a shift in its
focus to local political concerns. (Daily Press)
L. Kenneth Johnson, director,
American Systems Inc.,
Chantilly. Johnson had been president of
U.S.
operations for CACI International Inc., and previously
held positions with Federal Sources and Tracor Enterprise
Solutions. (News release)
Steven W. Kaylor, publisher,
Media General’s community newspapers
in
Danville and
Rockingham County,
N.C. Kaylor was previously
editor of the Bristol Herald Courier. In early
2005 he served as interim publisher for the Danville
Register & Bee and has worked for Media General
since 1987. (
Danville Register & Bee)
Jesse J. Lindsey, publisher, The
Suffolk News-Herald and Tidewater Shopper, president
of Suffolk Publications LLC. Previously, Lindsey was
publisher of The Selma (
Ala.) Times-Journal. (Daily Press)
John Jeffry Louis, director,
Gannett Co. Inc.,
McLean. Louis is chairman and co-founder of
Parson Capital Corp. Previously he was a co-founder
and a director of Frye-Louis Capital management and
Schirf Brewing
Co. (Business wire)
Stacy Mendler, COO,
Alion Science and Technology Inc., McLean. Mendler
is the company’s first COO. Previously she was the
company’s executive vice president and chief
administrative officer. (Business wire)
George Newstrom, president
and COO, Lee Technologies, Fairfax. Newstrom was
secretary of technology under Gov. Mark Warner and
an executive with EDS Inc. in Herndon. (PRNewswire)
Deborah Stearns, named
chairman CI Travel,
Norfolk. Stearns is managing director of GVA Advantis,
a commercial real estate firm, in
Norfolk. (News release)
Ian Strain, president
and CEO, Vigilon Inc., McLean. Strain was previously
senior vice president of Consul Risk Management. (PRNewswire)
Gary R. Thomson, partner-in-charge, Goodman & Company,
Richmond. Thomson will lead operations
in the firm’s offices in
Richmond and
Colonial Heights. (News release)
